Masteroff, Bock, Harnick’s Perfumery Scents the Air with Love by Lynne Stevens In these gray San Francisco days, we need some sparkling singing and dancing to cheer us up. Brilliance and cheer abound in 42nd Street Moon’s delightful musical “She Loves Me,” based on Miklós László’s 1936 play “Parfumerie.” The orchestra hidden onstage transports…
Millennial Notes L. Frank Baum Flies Over the Rainbow in S.F. Masterpiece by Nicholas Leither As a child, I watched it on broadcast television every single year. As a teenager, I watched it with Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” cued just so to the opening credits. As an adult, I use it as a metaphor…
Lynn Nottage’s 50s Memory Play Offers Inspiration in Hard Times by Philippa Kelly, Resident Dramaturg, California Shakespeare Theater In 1951, segregation was a social poison: What can two smart African American sisters expect from life in the U.S.? Marriage? A job in the bakery, or as a domestic? Or freedom to think, work and…
Athol Fugard’s Triumphant Sculptor Builds Her Mecca at Home by Patricia L. Morin Athol Fugard’s 2011 “The Road to Mecca” touches an issue many senior citizens face today, especially the baby boomers. What happens when your special love has died, and you are old and alone, feeling as though darkness has diminished your inner…